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Terence: PhormioAris & Phillips Classical Texts Terence's Phormio, based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the end of his short dramatic career in 161 BC. With its lively action, based on the traditional elements of love, deception and mistaken identity, the play provides an ideal introduction to the genre of New Comedy. What makes the Phormio unique amongst Terence's works is the central importance of the witty and scheming

graphic retelling of a classic Greek myth

in a concise format

the Commentary offers students considerable help understanding the Greek while the Introduction discusses Thucydides' narrative skill and the part these books play in the architecture of the history

from the most famous to the more obscure

Text with translation

metrical and structural questions

were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day

Στο πιο προσωπικό μυθιστόρημα που έχει γράψει ως σήμερα

Dr Pelling is concerned throughout to discuss the work as literature

It includes both English-Latin and Latin-English exercises

This text focuses on the image of rival societies

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